Back when I was in high school, students didn't want to go to the office. They avoided the principal and his henchmen/women, the vice principals, like the plague. The office was somewhere you didn't want to be.
Today in different classes I was being so unfair to a couple students that they got up, packed their belongings, and told me they were going to go talk to the vice principals.
In effect, two of my students sent themselves to the office. That's a new one for me.
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About 10 years ago, I had an AP who was beloved by certain students. If a teacher told them to work or sit down or behave, they could get up and go to her office. She would hand them candy and talk with them. Of course, their behavior never changed and behavior of other students became worse.
What were you thinking??? They aren't plebes there for you to haze!!!
Seriously, at least they weren't in your room to cause more disruptions.
And yes, the office was a place to avoid in my time. Went there once in four years and even though I was totally innocent, it was a stressful ~hour before they realized it wasn't me that did the offense.
That is standard here. It's phrased as 'if you aren't ready to learn, you can report to your choice of the AP, the psych, the social worker, the nurse or the guidance counselor'. The student can get a pass from a classroom teacher or an escort from hall security.
Would LOVE to know how THIS turns out!!!
The results were, uh, inconsistent.
Before retiring, I worked in school with six AP's Some were by the book hardasses and I only sent kids there when I was out of options. Two were jibbering desk monkeys that rarely assigned any sort of option that required them to do any work. The last two were pushovers that provided candy, a Keurig machine and beanbag chairs in their offices. If I sent kids there I knew I was in for more and worse of the same behavior usually accompanied by smirks. But what was the most annoying thing is to have two or more kids involved in the same infraction, but due to the alphabetic breakdown, to have each student get different consequences. There's little consistency and as a result the parents play teachers vs. administrators whenever possible.
So glad to be out of that.
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